
Bookish gift ideas for the maternal figures in your lives, be they mother or grandmother, aunt, teacher or friend
‘Always at night it came on; first the black panther under my bed, then wolves crowding in the shadowy corners of my room out of range of the nightlight, then snakes climbing up the walls. And my mother, finding that nothing else would reassure me, would spend large parts of each night carrying me wrapped in a shawl round and round the room and into all the corners, making me pat the walls to show myself that there was nothing there’